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Home District School

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted August, 2007

Attached to this building on the southeast corner of King and George Streets can be seen a York Pioneer and Historical Society plaque. Here's what it says:
Coordinates: 43.650633 -79.370492 |
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On this site, on June 1, 1807, The Rev. George Okill Stuart opened the first public school at York in a small one-storey stone building attached to his modest frame house. In 1813 the school was removed to a barn at the corner of King and Yonge Streets where classes were held until 1816 when the "Old Blue School" was erected on Church Street.
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